# Minor Features * Extended the virtual signals, and unified/changed graphics of some of the existing ones. * Added an ability to pin the...
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The original was posted on /r/factorio by /u/FactorioTeam on 2025-02-06 18:42:17+00:00.

Minor Features

  • Extended the virtual signals, and unified/changed graphics of some of the existing ones.
  • Added an ability to pin the selected resource patch directly from map view.

Balancing

  • [space-age] Oil Refinery now collides with ice platform more
  • water-mud and water-shallow are now landfillable in vanilla (already landfillable in space age) more

Changes

  • Added speed values to the description of demolishers. more
  • Drag building produces one merge undo action per the whole drag, instead of the individual undo actions for every entity built.

Optimizations

  • Cargo pod performance when launching from platforms to planets is roughly 687 times faster. more
  • Cargo pod performance when landing in cargo bays attached to landing pads is roughly 187 times faster.
  • Improved cargo pod and rocket silo rocket performance when waiting in rocket silos by 100%.
  • Improved inserter performance when removing items from space platform hubs.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed wrong behaviour in smart belt building over an obstacle with belts soon after the obstacle.
  • Fixed smart belt building over an obstacle when there is perpendicular underground belt in the way.
  • Fixed a crash when wrapping a rich text image in color tags and pressing backspace. more
  • Fixed that changing the force of a segment did not in fact change the force of the entire segmented unit. more
  • Fixed demolisher simulation in Factoriopedia.
  • Fixed that roboport read-requests could output signals when they weren’t actually being requested. more
  • Fixed missing link between vehicles and guns in Factoriopedia. more
  • Fixed that async saving would freeze the game. more
  • Fixed a crash when changing GUI scale with the production statistics open. more
  • Fixed textboxes not clearing mouse drag selection when something is typed. more
  • Fixed that issuing valid navigation commands to UnitGroups would sometimes fail or succeed immediately. more
  • Fixed that attack area commands issued to UnitGroups were not finding valid targets in the attack area. more
  • Fixed that super-forced building over belts ignored planned upgrade when adding underground belts. more
  • Fixed modifier icon in technology icons would cause the technology icons to draw smaller and off center. more
  • Fixed stack inserter not dropping held item that does not match filters when filters were enabled. more
  • Fixed yellow tinted rectangles around rail tracks and other sprites on Mac. more
  • Fixed Galaxy Of Fame upload timeout errors for bigger saves
  • Fixed a crash with a working sound containing an empty main sound. more
  • Fixed the research completed sound being played multiple times when multiple researches finish on the same tick. more
  • Fixed “Send to orbit automatically” tooltip being incorrect when playing Space Age with mods. more
  • Fixed a space platform destination inconsistency when pasting space platform hub settings. more
  • Fixed Schedule interrupts not reading any-signal signal counts sent to train correctly. more
  • Fixed car orientation being lost when exporting and reimporting blueprint string. more
  • Fixed being able to remotely drive enemy vehicles more
  • Fixed unrotatable furnaces being rotated when overbuilt with a blueprint more
  • Fixed including any filter into deconstruction planner would make it ignore vehicle ghosts more
  • Fixed removing tile ghost would sometimes not remove supported entity ghost in the margins more
  • Fixed that deconstructing cargo bays connected to cargo landing pads could delete items. more
  • Fixed a desync when upgrading underground belts in some cases.
  • Fixed a roboport network becoming overfilled with robots when a stationing robot went to a roboport which was being refilled by inserters and the network was full.
  • Fixed that a robot didn’t resume bobbing after unsuccessful stationing attempt.
  • Fixed space platform’s asteroid nav mesh could use wrong max tether value when after mods were changed. more
  • Fixed a consistency crash related to super force building and underground belts. more
  • Fixed that tile prototype’s placeable_by.count was ignored when building manually more
  • Modified Railgun Turret projectile spawning location such that it would no longer unexpectedly destroy nearby friendly entities more
  • Fixed that character light rendering would be wrong when paused while in remote view. more
  • Fixed issue which allowed player to get tile ghost over tile of same type (leading to stuck robots) more
  • Fixed entities with protected_from_tile_building = false would block tile ghost revival ( and )
  • Fixed overbuilding of storage chests with blueprint of different quality storage chest with filter set would result in unneeded deconstruction more
  • Fixed that space connections on the starmap would not use the shortest route if the route passed above the star. more
  • Fixed autofilled tile ghosts not raising on_built_entity triggers more

Scripting

  • Added LuaRecord::preview_icons read/write.
  • Added record to on_player_setup_blueprint and on_player_deconstructed_area. more
  • Added LuaEntity::create_cargo_pod().
  • Added LuaEntity::cargo_hatches read.
  • Added LuaEntity::cargo_pod_state read.
  • Added LuaEntity::cargo_pod_destination read/write.
  • Added LuaCargoHatch.
  • Added Luaentity::attached_cargo_pod read.
  • Added LuaEntity::rocket read.
  • Added LuaSpacePlatform::can_leave_current_location().
  • Added LuaSpacePlatform::distance read/write.
  • Added LuaSpacePlatform::space_connection read/write.
  • Changed LuaSpacePlatform::space_location to read/write.

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